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From: Gary Thomas <gdt@linuxppc.org>
To: Jeff Rugen <jrugen@primenet.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: RE: Motorola Powerstack Parallel Port
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 05:35:36 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.990513053536.gdt@linuxppc.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990512182248.24792A-100000@usr08.primenet.com>



On 13-May-99 Jeff Rugen wrote:
> 
> Ok, according to the book that came with my Motorola PowerStack, I have a
> parallel port that is compatible with IEEE standard 1284, including the
> Extended Capability Port (ECP) and Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP).  However,
> the driver (parport_pc) doesn't recognize it as ECP and EPP, and says its
> only SPP.  I haven't played around the parallel port much, so I figured I'd
> ask first, to see if anyone else had looked into this before.  Does the
> kernel need to do some sort of initialization before the parallel port is
> recognized as such?   (I do have a B&W quickcam plugged into the port now,
> but I don't think that should affect the detection).
> 

It might - those devices do funky things to the port even though they are
supposed to be invisible unless being accessed.

> I have one of the old 100MHz 604 machines.  I'm trying to get the quickcam
> drivers working with the 2.2.x/2.3.x kernel (I had one of the drivers
> working with the 2.0.x kernel, but I don't know if it was in EPP or SPP
> mode).
> 
> Any help, pointers, or advice on this topic would be much appreciated.
> If you know what specific chip is used to implement the parallel
> port, I can look around for a data book on it as well.  Thanks for any help.
>

The parallel port, along with most of the other devices in the system, are
implemented in the PCI-bridge chip (82473 IIRC).
 

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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-05-13  1:32 Motorola Powerstack Parallel Port Jeff Rugen
1999-05-13  4:35 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
1999-05-14  4:02   ` Jeff Rugen

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